The President is the Problem
Conservatives are holding their noses, working to paper over another year of the left's destructive deficit spending in order to avoid disrupting the economy--did you see the just-announced soon-to-be-revised-downward rollicking 1.3 percent annualized economic growth number?--and those dependent on government payments. Meanwhile, this morning President Obama delivered a statement calling for bipartisan compromise, by which he means conservatives voting for the liberal position. From Politico:
The bill put forward by House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) “does not solve the problem and … has no chance of becoming law,” Obama said, as he urged bipartisan compromise.
The bill that passes must have widespread support, and not just that of “one faction,” the president said, referring to the bloc of freshman and tea party-affiliated House Republicans who have been reluctant to agree to any deal to raise the debt ceiling that has the potential to pass the Senate.
“The time for putting party first is over,” he added. “The time for compromise on behalf of the American people is now.”
After fundamentally transforming a serious recession into our current debt-ridden no-growth proto-socialist utopia, it's a relief that the Democrat-in-Chief now acknowledges that "the time for putting party first is over."
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Jul '11
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Why are non-conservatives so daft? Do people really still believe this nonsense? It has been clear that the president was going to be/is the problem since November of 2008! I don't usually give into conspiracies but I am beginning to wonder whether or not this all wasn't a scheme. GDP tries to find the floor as quickly as it can, the president predicts economic catastrophe if we don't raise the debt ceiling, and then threatens to veto anything the house passes. Is it just me or is he trying to shift the blame for something that is already destined to happen in August?
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I share your fear, which is why I reluctantly, and it now appears, pointlessly, joined the Boehner juggernaut currently marching in circles around Capitol Hill. The economy isn't heading anywhere nice and our president, together with his media chorus, is gearing up to blame it all on the debt ceiling imbroglio. If only we'd just given him another $2.7 trillion in spending authority, the story will go, the economy would be taking off instead of cratering.
It looks like we will get to see this scenario play out.
Jul '10
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George Savage: ...
After fundamentally transforming a serious recession into our current debt-ridden no-growth proto-socialist utopia, it's a relief that the Democrat-in-Chief now acknowledges that "the time for putting party first is over." ·
But when Obama says "the time for putting party first is over," we all know that he is putting party first in saying that. Having driven his party to tie a 22 year low in voter identification.
Oct '10
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Charles Krauthammer's latest gives a good perspective on this issue. We must press forward to 2012 with viable conservative candidates for the Senate and the Executive!
Apr '11
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I'm sure Obama's plan (or at least framework) wich solves the problem for everyone will be posted online any minute now so all Americans can rally behind his scary leadership
Sep '10
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I might reword this to say, "Conservatives are holding their noses, while they try to prevent the establishment politicians in DC from papering over another year of the lefts deficit spending fearing that doing so yet again would disrupt the economy."
Jul '10
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I'm back to believing a Manchurian Candidate managed to slip through the tight weave of the vettting net in 2008. A career in the academy is not enough to explain this recklessness and incompetence.
Dec '10
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Indeed.
An idiot/incompetent would occasionally get something right, just by sheer accident, law of averages and all that.
But instead, we have a guy who at every turn takes the wrong path, as if he looks at the problem, figures out what needs to be done to solve it, and then goes in the exact opposite direction.
At some point it has to be acknowledged as purposeful malice, not well intentioned incompetence.